Paramount Pictures Acquires Battling Boy

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Paramount Pictures Acquires Battling Boy

Source:Variety

November 4, 2008

Paramount Pictures has acquired Paul Pope's upcoming graphic novel Battling Boy, with Brad Pitt's Plan B to produce the adaptation, reports Variety.

The gritty tale centers on the son of a god or superhero who comes down from the top of a mountain at his father's behest in order to rid a giant city of monsters.

The book will be published in spring 2010 by First Second Books.

Pope, a multiple Eisner Award winner who writes and illustrates his work, is best known for his "Heavy Liquid" and "Batman: Year 100" comic book series. He worked for years at Kodansha, Japan's best-known manga publisher.

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Posted by: kenny38606 on November 5, 2008 at 02:24:38

Really?The book doesn't come for another year and it's already optioned?Also, will he rid a giant city of monsters, or will he rid a city of giant monsters?

Posted by: metawar on November 5, 2008 at 03:28:52

Paul pope rocks !

Posted by: tognabologna on November 5, 2008 at 03:54:47

was thinkin the same thing about the latter question kenny, haha

Posted by: kyle96 on November 5, 2008 at 07:17:24

so a superhero is supposed to rid a city of giant monsters?
idk..that plot has been used about 372 times..but this might turn out really cool

Posted by: TheRainsSplitter on November 5, 2008 at 09:13:03

It is a city populated solely by monsters, and it is rather large...this is a movie about genocide.

Posted by: Dr. Doc on November 5, 2008 at 09:38:32

anyone know if Batman Yr 100 is any good?

his art style has always intrigued me, but the story sounded lame to me

Posted by: Frerezar on November 5, 2008 at 10:26:59

ok please stop it studios. Thic comicbook movie boom is cool and all. But you are gonna burn the genre, its gonna die faster than hair metal. Please take ti easy and stop being greedy so this whole things lasts.

Posted by: MyJobSuuuuucks on November 5, 2008 at 10:40:23

Batman Year 100 is one of my personal favorites...and it won an Eisner.

Definitely worth the read.

Posted by: lou-bert vs. q-bert on November 5, 2008 at 10:52:00

Battling what, now?

Posted by: M. Bison on November 5, 2008 at 13:29:01

Dr. Doc, What is Batman year 100 I have never heard of that, but it seems MyJobsuuuuucks knows alot about it. MJS, tell me my man what Batman year 100 is about I am a huge Batman fan as well a huge Superman fan too. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are the top 3 chief character advertisements for DC Comics. For, Marvel comics the 3 top character advertisements are Spiderman, Hulk and Wolverine.

Posted by: someone on November 5, 2008 at 14:12:38

batman year 100 (one of my personal favorites as well) is a story of batman set in the year 2039, 100 years after his first appearance in 1939. its set in a distopian future where gotham is a police state and there are no secret identities or masks. think batman set in the gritty world of bladerunner mixed with 1984 by george orwell. in the story, this forgotten icon of the past is wanted for murder in the future! it starts of with batman booking it across a rooftop being chased by police dogs and follows batman as he tries to solve the murder hes been framed for and uncovers a government conspiracy all the while being hunted by the police! its very fast paced. i really suck at explaining things simply but i hope i did an okay job.

Posted by: Smallville>Heroes on November 5, 2008 at 16:41:40

It sounds like Hercules. The god being Zeus and the son being well Hercules.

Posted by: Spock with a Crowbar on November 5, 2008 at 17:24:36

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure I saw a video of Pope holding up a page or two from the book and describing the character as the son of a god, not a superhero.

In any case, Pope is a fav of mine and I can't wait to see the new book!

Posted by: Spider on November 6, 2008 at 23:25:36

Posted by: kyle96 on November 5, 2008 at 07:17:24

so a superhero is supposed to rid a city of giant monsters?
idk..that plot has been used about 372 times..but this might turn out really cool
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Agreed, kyle96. But that's not the plot they're using. He's to rid a GIANT CITY of monsters.

So it's probably going to be a city the size of Australia, populated with zillions of innocent tiny burger-sized little monsters living in peace. And the superhero is supposed to rid of - not only the monsters - but the whole city, all land mass and everything.

When did you ever see that plot? ^_~

Posted by: Spider on November 6, 2008 at 23:34:45

And what next? They'll buy the rights of the next comic Frank Miller would write/illustrate, which Frank hasn't even think of at that moment.

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